I missed this; maybe others have too. El Shewy, Griffiths & Jones, 'Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame' @ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....: "the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌

In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...

i was in a coffee shop one ordinary day in Liverpool when Manchán Magan wandered in. He came over to me as though he knew me. We had a lovely chat. A striking moment. I went to his show that night. He had a soft kind sagesse abt him. I'm sad. May be rest in peace www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

The moral case for the Israel Football Association's suspension from football is horrifically self-evident, but important to stress there are very clear grounds for their exclusion in the UEFA and FIFA statutes. Joint letter to UEFA from Bohemians, Irish Sport for Palestine and FairSquare 👇

Spoke on RTÉ radio ‘News at one’ today on the UN Commission of Inquiry report on genocide in Gaza. @rteradio1.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social You can listen back here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

Webinar on corporate accountability taking place tomorrow at 17:00 Irish time. Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me. Still time to register 👇👇👇

Germany and Italy need more time to consider whether Israel should be denied *partial access* to the Horizon Europe research fund. More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation. More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.

I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager. And like, I don't think that's what's going on? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Migrants are subject to hypervisibility & invisibility - this manifests in a specific way in UK law & policy, which is most obvious from the Rwanda plan. This however connects to a longer history of deterrence & characterisation of asylum seekers as 'destitute' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.

The World Health Organisation can be added to the list of international and local organisations - already including UN, International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Red Crescent, World Central Kitchen - attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.

this was very clearly a likely consequence of proscribing a pro Palestine group. Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms. Free Palestine

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

The Terrorism Act-the basis for discriminatory executive UK powers/policy since 2000-has @ 25 come of age, its remarkably wide definition & extraordinary exec powers put to the authoritarian purpose of proscribing an anti-war direct action group & criminalising the views of a big proportion of UK.

In a week when the divide between direct action protest and terrorism disappeared for the UK Government, Anne Alexander, @aliceellafinden.bsky.social and I share our thoughts on the dangerous chilling effect for Art 10/11 ECHR rights with @opendemocracy.net: www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...

The Israeli human rights organisation B'tselem gave up on cooperating with IDF inquiries years ago: "no accountability" "the veneer of a functioning system"

Great piece from Oscar Rickett in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social. This experts' letter doesn’t explicitly tell Fifa to suspend or expel Israel from international football, but it leaves them in no doubt that that’s what their own rules require them to do. www.middleeasteye.net/news/legal-e...

“Member associations and their clubs may not play on the territory of another member association without the latter’s approval.” Pleased to sign this letter to FIFA coordinated by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of @fairsq.bsky.social fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

The UK definition of terrorism is sweeping and gives way too much discretion to the executive. When that executive is irresponsible. that's dangerous. Starmer and Cooper's move to proscribe Palestine Action is just bad and pretty damn worrying.

New publication in Industrial Law Journal 🎉 The early EU once imagined a different kind of environmental policy. It was rooted in social democracy, not neoliberal logic. It's open access so you can give it a read at the link below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/indl...

Over 350 barristers, solicitors and legal academics say Ireland is falling short of its international law obligations in relation to the Palestine crisis.

Brilliant, devastating article on Israel’s appalling starvation policy by @jessicawhyte.bsky.social

Calling all international lawyers, legal scholars and practioners, please sign this urgent call in support of a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the (ongoing!) siege of Gaza: forms.gle/fUmT7QG4ZAP2...

As Gaza faces mass starvation, I wrote about Israel’s new militarised aid plan (to be run by a ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ headed by a former US sniper) and the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the siege. www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

“A Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy would mark a historic step to break the siege, end the starvation, and affirm the world’s rejection of hunger as a weapon of war.” A crucial Palestinian-led call from 250+ orgs to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza. law4palestine.org/unified-call...

"Israel continues to block UN-mandated investigators bodies from Gaza, while destroying, and burying, evidence of its crimes". Watch Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's intervention before the International Court of Justice as part of the State of Palestine legal team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4F...

This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

8/ Yet Mr Sa’ar travels freely to the UK and is welcomed by UK officials. On March 14th he met with the Foreign Secretary #DavidLammy t.co/W3XCFdyqEx

1/ 🚨BREAKING: An arrest warrant is being urgently sought for Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar during his UK visit. The charges focus on his role in the siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, which led to the abduction +torture of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya www.glanlaw.org/uk-arrest-wa...

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “emphasizes that prior warning by IOF before bombing one of the main hospital’s buildings does not justify the crime but further proves that the aim was to destroy.” pchrgaza.org/israel-bombs...

We are almost half way to the £50,000 needed to keep the ASN helpline there for all who need abortion support We have 3 more weeks to raise the other half Any amount in any currency will help, as a one-off, or as a first fiver in a regular payment abortionsupport.donorsupport.co/page/EMERGEN...

This is CNN reporting that Israel systematically targeted UN aid workers, killed them, and buried the bodies in a mass grave, and that it did so shortly after breaking a ceasefire agreement.

27 pages of dead Palestinian children who have not lived to see their first birthday.

So glad to read this: "I want to know how people feel about BDS and the academic boycott of Israel; whether they would attend a conference in Berlin even if they were allowed to speak about Palestine, knowing that comrades are being arrested for speaking Arabic outside, for wearing a Kufiyah..."

Comrades, don’t miss this fabulous piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

Palestinian human rights defender Ihab Fisal killed in an Israeli airstrike after the ceasefire was announced. Relentless.

A true disgrace to her role.

The UN Special Rapportuer on Torture gave a closing speech entitled “Every Child’s Right to Peace and to Play” at Hebrew University 16 December. 11 paragraphs in she mentioned Gaza's 17,000 "perished" children: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

The November issue of @dublininquirer.com featured my re-imagining illustration of O'Connell St in late autumn. Native trees like rowan and hawthorn, ivy climbing up a fence on the spire and an annual meadow gone to seed and wilting...

"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented". A remarkable finding.